Yes! I think what felt so unnatural about the finale was that we were so used to how organic their scenes were and how naturally they flowed and yes, often they had kisses to build to an interruption, that’s just a hidden love trope, but they still worked so well. That kitchen scene needed one in the very way they wrote and acted and directed it. This is not us reading into it, it’s their lack.
And as you said, it could have worked in that moment and made it even more poignant, that for all the love and want and yearning, they still couldn’t be together.
And another anon:
I wish we had gotten a full body shot of that counter scene. The body language of both of them, but esp juls when shes turned and pinned to the counter. Just the way her upper body/shoulder area slouches down, ugh, I’m a sucker for facial expressions and body language and while we got to see the former I wish we got to see the latter. They really do have a lot of chemistry it’s actually kind of ridiculous. The way they look at each other and the way their bodies react to each other is special.
For real, it’d have been great to get a few wider shots. I loved the intimacy and framing but if they were going to offer us that positioning, they may as well have shown us the whole thing. Maybe that would have been too risque? You wouldn’t think people who’d shown kisses would balk at that but, actually, the next anon offers an interesting theory about the finale.
And another anon:
It’s been almost a week and I’m just still in awe (in a bad way) that they didn’t resolve allllll of the shit Juliantina have gone thru with a kiss at the end. Like!!!! Y’all made us watch sergio!!!! I am beyond grateful that Juliantina lived and ended up together and were happily living their best lives but I don’t understand the lack of the last kiss. There were at least two good scenes that needed it and it would’ve been a couple more seconds of screentime at most. (½)
I gotta conclude that they didn’t wanna include Blatant Gay Content in the finale Bc it aired on a Sunday and they thought there’d be more families or ppl in general watching. Which is a bummer if that’s the reason. Esp after the long sex scene Lucia/Jacobo got. Granted, Lucia died so I’m much more content w Juliantinas plot but their final arc needed a kiss dammit! Lol thankfully their chemistry is so good it’s almost like they kissed anyways (2/2)
That’s……possible? I mean, everyone’s been racking their brains trying to understand why the absence then, of all episodes, when they showed some already and this was the big sendoff. They didn’t even tape anything so can’t blame the censors, it couldn’t have been a matter of screentime, it’d have cost a few seconds, the actors were shown to be willing (and quite good at it >_>) so then? We’ve been asking ourselves what was different about the finale and that’s as good an answer as anything, I guess? I dunno. It would be pretty sad if they deliberately toned things down because it was a big, more widely seen event.